Humberto Vacaflor writes in HoyBolivia.com: Their pride lasted very little Cuba has decided to install a gigantic dock for containers, given that the ones the United States has in its territory do not cover its foreign trade traffic and need to rent them from the neighbors. These same days, the Bolivian Government has decided to…
Month: September 2013
Autonomy will suffer one more time, current Bolivian ochlocracy is relentless…
Aidee Rojas reports for El Deber: DELAY IN THE DISBURSEMENT YPFB poses to defer payment of HDI and royalties The transfer of the resources will be in uniform fees over 10 years The President of YPFB, Carlos Villegas, said yesterday about deferring the payment in five years, of the royalties and direct tax to the…
One of the few value added Bolivian products: viticulture!
From El Deber: Viticulture moves $us 107 million, according to study The annual consumption of grapes, wine and singani [Bolivian “vodka” made with grapes], who are part of the most important productive chain in Tarija, generates $107 million dollars, which represents 0.5% of the national gross domestic product (GDP), according to the report by Captura…
Bolivian ochlocracy and rampant corruption
Carlos Valverde writes in El Deber: Institutionality and purging Vice President García Linera said that “there was no sufficient effort in the Bolivian police institutionally to purge their troops”; statement that it’s very interesting coming from him, an important man of a Government that got hold of a ‘pseudo-militants’ inside the military and police for…
Authoritarian leaders breed corruption and Bolivia is no longer a surprise
Andres Oppenheimer writes in The Miami Herald: Authoritarian leaders breed corruption BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER AOPPENHEIMER@MIAMIHERALD.COM What’s most amazing about the arrest in Miami of Bolivia’s top anti-corruption police official, caught on tape extorting a bribe from a well-known businessman, was that hardly anybody was surprised by the news. Corruption by top officials of Bolivia, Ecuador,…
Bolivia ruling ochlocracy, now a senior policeman caught in political extortion!
Jay Weaver describes Bolivian ordeal under the ruling ochlocracy, from the Miami Herald: FEDERAL COURTS Bolivia’s anti-corruption chief charged with extorting airline executive in Miami BY JAY WEAVER JWEAVER@MIAMIHERALD.COM Only in Miami: The Bolivian government’s top anti-corruption cop is locked up in a downtown jail cell, accused of shaking down a foreign businessman here for…
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